Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-16


of the building, with an entrance on Sec
ond street, is used for charitable and
benevolent work.
We recommend the reading room to our
| citizens and to strangers, also to travel
ers spending short time in the city as 6
! pleasant and profitable place to pass q
leisure hour. The room is supplied
through the kindness snd generosity of
THE GAZETTE with the daily exchanges,
and our library consists of three hundred
volumes of choice reading. The place is
well lighted, home-like and cosy, and
cordial welcome Is extended to the public
and TO sll persons who have an interest
| in the prosperity and growth of this be-
nevolent organization. We expect soon
to secure rsilrosd matter, especially
adapted to that interesting line of work,
and trust our railroad men will find the
reading room an instructive ana
interesting place to gather at
their leisure. 3 home made lunch is
furnished ut all hours of the day in the
coffee room, and we commend it to the
| patronage OF the business men, also TO the
ladies, asking them when out calling or
shopping to come in and refresh them
| selves with s home made lunch. The
proceeds are TO be used for the promotion
OF the charitable work.
! The room in the rear of the
| building is used for s dining hall for the
poor and the bootblacks, who are fur
nished with three daily meals at the nom
lEal sum of 5 cents per meal, and lodging
at the same rate.
The bootblacks form q very interesting
| feature of this work. We extend our
sincere thanks to the Common Council for
| their interest and appreciation, as evinced
| by their appropriation OF money to buy
cots and lodgings for these boys. The
importance of this department cannot be
overesGimated. Most OF these waits are
orphans, and homeless. Their homes have
been heretofore where night overlook
them under dry goods oOx 10 some
dark alley or corner, covered perhaps with
! a few rags. We all know what cheer
| full freside and home-WelcOme means to
the business man as he returns from has
daily toll, WesIied with the cares and
perplexitiee CT the day, and how ne looks
| forward to this haven of rest, the home,
che great psnaCea for the ills Of this life.
II this word is so precious to him and to
US all, what must it be TO tired Gn0
weary little wait, who has known SO little
Of the home love and care.
Little Eddy came in at eve from his
work in the street, weary and dusty, I'm
strapped his box and brush, hung up his
cap and sat down. His black eyes filed
with tears as he exclaimed: "Oh, ma'am !!
this seems like home;" at the same tim
surveying the Clearly, inviting table pre-
pared for the evening meal. "Have you
no father nor mother, Eddy?" asked the
kind lady, surveying him. "Father is
dead" he replied; "don't know where
mother is. 1 shall never go away from
here" Underneath these rough ex5eriOrs
and shabby coats lie tender hearts that
quickly respond to the magic, tender touch
Of love. This Association wants the dear
public to help gather these boys into the
ScReol. Let every man and woman &s
they pasa by them invite them to come 10
the evening school, where faithful tesc1-
hers instruct them. These children are
rapidly passing away from childhood. Let
US sgse them. All the boys who do not
lettend the day school are urged to come
20 cur Iagat school, where untiring effort
is made to Instruct them.
l. A temperance school has also been
bestablished, where the evils Of alcohol
are taught. Already it is bearing fruit,
I"Inasmuch as ye have dohe it unto one OF
4 the least Of these, ye have done it unto
Me-" An Industrial school is also being
organized.
The check system is working admirG-
l bly,, ss, itpsegents the idle from imposing
upon the public-tne wo0dpile being a
sure test of their manhood. No encour-
agement given to pauperism, wise dis
elimination being made in each case.
We are largely indebted to the benevc-
lent and Christian ladies of this city Il
their liberal donations Of quilts,
blankets and clothing. papers ana
magazines for this department.; also
to M. Kennedy Of the P.ckwick
hotel, to whom we tender our warmest
thanks for his supply Of provisions tor
the table of the poor. The toothsome
meals prepared from his baskets of pro-
visions make the stomachs and eyes of
our boys to rejoice, and am sure if this
gentleman were to see them eat his heart
would rejoice with them.
The records of the charitable depart
ment for the month closed show 356
meals served, one widow and three
children provided with railroad tickets / o
Texarkans, forty applications for relief,
eight disregarded, thirty two assisted in
clothing, groceries and meals, two wild
\ oWS daily furnished with baskets OF pro
visions. Also quite large numbec Of
able bodied men applied; tested By the
wood pile ana found wanting; only three
endured the test. Blind men, aged men
and cripples, slso sick men, are among
the applicants.
The ladies of this association desire to
express thair deepest gratitude and sin
cerest thanks 10 GIL the citizens who
have SO kindly aided them in their work
of benevolence, but many OF them have OF
IS yet had On opportunity to extend 8
helping hand to this good cause, and we
hope and believe that they will gladly re-
spOnd to the demand necessarily made
upon them for the continuance and pros
perity Of the organization. The associa-
ton is carried on with the strictest econ
omy, the mstron and housekeeper alone
receiving sslaries-they devote their en-
tire time. The services of the otlt r
ladies are gratuitous, expecting no COM
pensation, except IS they read the words
OF the Master: "She hath done what she
could" Respectfully,
H.. Mrs. DELLA COLLINS,
F7s Secretary.
r Ladies